herpes zoster

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. See shingles.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An acute viral inflammation of the sensory ganglia of spinal and cranial nerves associated with a vesicular eruption and neuralgic pains and caused by reactivation of the poxvirus causing chicken pox.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. same as shingles; -- a form of herpes caused by the varicella-zoster virus.